Career Quotes
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What the Internet has done is made it easier to stay in touch with people, and social networking has helped me career-wise by helping me keep in touch with my fans.
James Wan
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I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.
Kate Moss
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I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.
Katherine Heigl
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I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.
Ellie Goulding
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I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, 'Compromise breeds mediocrity.' Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing.
David Foster
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I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.
John Travolta
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I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.
David Ginola
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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
Laura Dern
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the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.
Alison Lurie
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In my early career, there were more negative lessons than positive ones. But I don't think I was looking for the positives enough.
Mark Pincus
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'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.
Lea Thompson
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I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.
Natasha Hamilton
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When I'm done fighting, I want to look to get some sort of driving career somewhere. My goal is to eventually get into the Mint 400 and do the trophy truck stuff.
Dominick Cruz
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When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
Sam Neill
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I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.
Ed Sheeran
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I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.
Kim Cattrall
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After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.
John B. Hood
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There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.
Victoria Pendleton
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My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
Vendela Kirsebom
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I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.
Karen Katz
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A lot of people would be happy that they got through a long career and had a chance to play as many times in the finals. To me, I wanted to win for the franchise and for the people. And when you can't do that, it's devastating, particularly for someone like me.
Jerry West
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It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.
Priscilla Presley